Signalling Problems In The Severn Tunnel Area (27/09/2008)

Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 03:55 29 Apr 2025

- Shuttered shops and unfinished haircuts - how a day without power unfolded
- Flights cancelled in Portugal and Spain due to power cut

Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]

[whole diary]

10/05/25 - BRTA Westbury
10/05/25 - Model Railway Show, Calne
13/05/25 - Melksham TUG / AGM
14/05/25 - West Wiltshire RUG

On this day
29th Apr (1963)

Bristol Bus Boycott announced (*)

• • • • • • Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

April 29, 2025, 04:10:41

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Most recently liked subjects
[384] Chiltern Railways: an update on rolling stock / services
[52] Driving licences and tests - ongoing discussion, merged topics
[38] Station Jim’s whereabouts
[36] Thames Valley infrastructure problems causing disruption elsew...
[32] North Cotswold line - driver route knowledge
[25] Stop orders as cover for cancelled services

News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West

Home

Help

Calendar

Great Western Coffee Shop > Journey by Journey > London to South Wales > Signalling Problems In The Severn Tunnel Area (27/09/2008)

Pages: [1]

« previous next »

Author

Topic: Signalling Problems In The Severn Tunnel Area (27/09/2008) (Read 4718 times)

Lee

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 7519

GBR - The Emperor's New Rail Network

Signalling Problems In The Severn Tunnel Area (27/09/2008)

« on: September 27, 2008, 18:34:04 »

A fair bit of disruption due to this. From the FGW^▸ website :

Train services between Bristol Parkway and Newport South Wales have been disrupted due to signalling problems in the Severn Tunnel area.Engineers have worked as fast as possible to restore services to normal. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 60 minutes may still occur.


	Logged

Vous devez être impitoyable, parce que ces gens sont des salauds - https://looka.com/s/78722877

Graz

Hero Member

Posts: 444

Re: Signalling Problems In The Severn Tunnel Area (27/09/2008)

« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2008, 20:16:37 »

I was caught up in this...no trains could go through the Severn tunnel, and I'm guessing the London HSTs^▸ went via Gloucester to Swindon. I got a local Arriva train to Newport and there were replacement buses there to Bristol Parkway, which was fun(!). Seemed to be chaotic at Bristol Parkway, as Cross Country services were hours late too...


	Logged

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »

Jump to:

This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page